{"product_id":"matrix-book-lauren-groff-9781594634499","title":"Matrix","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of our best American writers, and author of \u003ci\u003eFates and Furies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBrawler\u003c\/i\u003e, Lauren Groff returns with this exhilarating and groundbreaking novel\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * WINNER OF THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Named a Best Book of the Year by Barack Obama, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, \u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, Vulture, \u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e, Vox, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A relentless exhibition of Groff's freakish talent.\" --\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"An electric reimagining . . . feminist, sensual . . . unforgettable.\" --\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Thrilling and heartbreaking.\" --\u003ci\u003eTime Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie's vision be bulwark enough?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, \u003ci\u003eMatrix\u003c\/i\u003e gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff's new novel, her first since \u003ci\u003eFates and Furies\u003c\/i\u003e, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49563937046801,"sku":"CIN1594634491G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49708229361937,"sku":"CIN1594634491A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49759479398673,"sku":"CIN1594634491VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50808443175185,"sku":"GOR011978822","price":35.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037974429969,"sku":"NIN9781594634499","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53222496895249,"sku":"GOR014814091","price":36.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53356659245329,"sku":"GOR014872778","price":36.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1594634491.jpg?v=1751430448","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/matrix-book-lauren-groff-9781594634499","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}